It has been an interesting journey thus far in understanding
copyright, licenses, and attribution. I poked my head around Creative Commons
and tried to find some useful tidbits on how to properly attribute an image.
After little searching I found this very visual
explanation on what to do and what not to do.
Why should we attribute?
- Give credit where credit is due. It reminds me of how we need to cite properly in our papers. Same concept I would imagine.
- Give traffic to the source. Letting your reader be able to go back to the source provides traffic to the creator.
- It’s not yours. If you fail to properly attribute, others might think the work is yours.
Here is a Creative Commons licensed photo on Flickr with
attribution.
This photo made me chuckle.
How did I do? Did I miss anything?
Thanks for the guide on how to attribute photos – I wanted to search for it, but was too lazy to do that ☺
ReplyDeleteI am little bit confused with the attribution rules. Do you need to attribute a photo in your blog post when it is located on the website you have already linked in the post? What do you think?
In my post I only include the link in the attribution under the image. The other link is just the procedures on how to do an attribution. Now it is my understanding that when you attribute the photo the link to the photo should be close to the photo. So if the link is somewhere else in your post, it is not clearly defined.
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